Chapter 476: Coaxing Hong Chengchou (Page 1/1)

Yang Zhihe was puzzled: "My lord, you have personally decided to abandon the shore to lure the enemy into the depths," he pointed to the impeachment of Hong Chengchou on the ground, "His Royal Highness the Prince Regent sent these folds to you, it is to show trust and support, why ......?"

"You don't understand the joints." Hong Chengchou frowned and shook his head, "If in normal times, I will let people retreat slightly, and then cut off the Southern Army's victory, and naturally no one will mention the past."

"But the previous time the Ming army attacked the outskirts of Beijing, and now Liaodong is in turmoil, and the government and the opposition are fluctuating at the time when people's hearts are fluctuating. At this time, even if you take a step back, it will be magnified thousands of times in the court! At that time, the impeachment of the old man can fill the Wuying Palace, and the Nine Princes will not be able to keep the old man even if he wants to protect him.

"Why do you have to hold on until the imperial court clears the Ming army in Liaodong......"

Yang Zhihe saw that his face was not good, and hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Oh, by the way, Lord Dutang, there is some good news." ”

"Speak quickly!"

"Lucked Dehun Belle broke the Xie Qian rebels in Zichuan, and only more than 1,000 thieves fled to the area of Lijin County." Yang Zhihe said, "Now the main force of the Red Flag is close to Fengyang and is rushing to Nanjing. It is reported that some time ago, the Zhenghongqi Firearms Battalion had been reequipped with a newly made 11-coin flint flintlock gun. This gun is amazing, as powerful as a small cannon, with the help of such sharp weapons, the Southern Army is just slaughtering chickens and dogs. ”

Hong Chengchou's brows finally stretched a little when he heard this. The nearly 30,000 troops of Luckedhun and Dasu had already arrived near Nanjing, but they were suddenly recalled to Jinan Mansion, saying that they would replace their weapons and reorganize them.

Now this elite unit has finally been reorganized. This team of people and horses are all trained in the new formation passed down by Gao Xiang, and they are equipped with a new system of "flintlock guns", and it is said that the combat power has increased several times compared with the past! Judging from the fact that they easily swept away the Zichuan traitors on the way south, this is true.

Just wait for these 30,000 people to arrive at the front line of Qiantang, and I believe that they will be able to reverse the current slightly passive situation immediately.

Yang Zhihe continued: "My lord, in addition, the news sent by the Beijing Ordnance Bureau. The Yiren surnamed Tang recently pondered a peculiar hexagonal cannon, which is said to be so powerful that it can shoot more than four miles in one cannon, and the accuracy is excellent, and it will be able to hit the city gate several miles away within five cannons! ”

"Really?!" Hong Chengchou also gasped. Boy! A cannon with a range of four miles can still hit so accurately! If this cannon can be allocated to him twenty or thirty guns, the enemy is afraid that before he can run within two miles of the battle, he will already become a ghost under the cannon!

"Back to my lord, it should be true." Yang Zhihe nodded and said, "The Ordnance Bureau said that all the gunsmiths have been specially mobilized for this matter recently, and they are stepping up casting, and more than ten statues should be produced and shipped to Nanjing within a month." ”

"Good!"

Hong Chengchou finally smiled, with 30,000 newly trained Jianzhou banner soldiers, coupled with this kind of powerful cannon, even if those southern troops were cast in iron and copper, they would definitely be easily crushed into powder!

What he needs now is patience - wait patiently for the arrival of the Lekedehun army, wait patiently for the arrival of the new artillery, and wait patiently for Zheng Zhilong to return to Qiantang after calming the Bohai Sea......

He sighed lightly, looked at the south from afar, and said with great ambition: "Zhu Linmiao, wait for the old man to knock down your last beam, and see who else can support the Nanming country!" ”

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On the north bank of the Qiantang River, Pinghu City.

Zhang Huangyan pressed the hilt of his sword, quickly climbed to the top of the city, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and saw the black pressure of the people on the west side surging, during which the flags were all over the place.

He turned his head and asked Wang Yi, the deputy general beside him: "Can you find out which team of thieves are coming, and how many people are there?" ”

"Back to the general, visit the horse and report back, it is the thief army of Yang Chengzu's army, there are more than 7,000 people."

On the side, Deng Shan stuffed the telescope into Zhang Huangyan's hand, "The flag is indeed the word 'Yang', and there are a lot of siege equipment." ”

"How is Chen Tai's house?" Zhang Huangyan fiddled with the telescope for a long time, and said with some disappointment, "Could it be that the thieves don't look down on our four thousand people?" ”

Deng Shan said with a smile: "The old thief Hong has suffered repeated losses on the north bank of Qiantang, and he is afraid that Hangzhou will be attacked by our army, so he specially ordered Chen Tai's Jianzhou soldiers to garrison Hangzhou, I am afraid that he will not be able to come to Pinghu." ”

Wang Xiang was faintly worried, and arched his hand: "Two generals, the Zhejiang army in our city plus a battalion of soldiers from the broken battalion is less than 5,000 people. Outside the city, there are 15,000 thieves in Huangding Jiabu Congshan, plus these 7,000 people, the pressure on our army to defend the city is getting greater. ”

Deng Shan and Zhang Huangyan looked at each other and smiled, "I'm not afraid of him coming, I'm afraid that he won't come." If Chen Tai's men and horses come one day, I will invite the soldiers to eat a large piece of meat and drink a lot of wine! ”

"I will lead 7,000 men in Xiaoshan, and I will be able to make 40,000 horses and thieves not enter. Now that I have these weapons brought by General Deng," Zhang Huangyan glanced at the cannon at the head of the city, "I really don't care if there are forty or fifty thousand thieves." ”

Just a few days ago, the 6,000 dragon guards in Pinghu City had boarded the ship and left, and it was the 3,800 Zhejiang army under Zhang Huangyan who took their place to defend the city. The next day, Deng Shan led a 1,000-strong battalion to help defend with artillery, earth-shattering thunder, and birds. Among these cannons were eighteen-pounder cannons brought from the ships of the Marines, and although they were extremely mobile, they were very suitable for defending the city.

When Hong Chengchou learned that the Ming army's only city defense on the north bank of Qiantang had been greatly reduced, he immediately mobilized all the mobile forces at hand to besiege it.

Deng Shan also shook his head with a relaxed expression and said: "When the old thief Hong finds out that all the troops of our army attacking the north bank of Qiantang have gone north along the coast, this Pinghu City is just a bait to drag him, and he has transferred more than 20,000 people to attack the city, tsk, I'm afraid I will have to spit out a few mouthfuls of old blood!" ”

At the time of the Shen Dynasty, the Qing army pushed the siege equipment and tried to get close to Pinghu City. But they were still more than two miles away from the city, and there was a cannon roar at the top of the city, and the huge eighteen-pound iron ball immediately "plowed" a bloody ditch in the crowd.

Huang Ding hurriedly ordered to move to the other side to attack the city, but he was still met with artillery head-on. Soon, the captives discovered that Pinghu City, which was located in every square inch, had artillery pieces of different sizes deployed on all sides, with a total of thirty or forty guns.

Huang Ding hurriedly informed Hong Chengchou that the southerners had placed a lot of cannons in Pinghu and must be preparing to defend the city. The latter immediately sent another 4,000 men and horses to reinforce it.

The next day, Jianyu mobilized all 26,000 troops to storm Pinghu from four directions.

When the captives rushed to the city with cannons, what awaited them was a dense firecracker - the more than 1,000 people in the Broken Camp were equipped with flintlock guns, and Zhang Huangyan's department switched to the remaining Lumi guns used in the Broken Camp.

Although the Qing army was outnumbered, it attacked the city on its back, and its weapons were inferior to the defenders, and it lost two or three thousand men in an instant under the continuous fire of cannons and firearms.

Only Bu Congshan personally led 300 generals to rush to the city, and before the ladder could be raised, he was surprised to see the Ming army drop a sparkling "iron ball" from the city.

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